But if we feel hollow, we can bake pumpkin bread or molasses cookies.

The Black Duck Bistro in the Park South Hotel offers a hefty bag of duck-shaped molasses cookies.

"The best are molasses cookies," he said.

"Making molasses cookies," I said, lifting the sheets in evidence, before sliding them into the brick oven set in the wall of the fireplace.

We eat "mothball cookies" (molasses cookies that were stored in a closet that was mothproofed) and have a good time.

"Will you have molasses cookies?"

Her claws scrabbled on the plate and she began to cram thin molasses cookies and delicate frosted slices of cake into her mouth with both hands.

With that she marched majestically into the kitchen, el- bowed Letty-Lou out of her way, and proceeded to stir up a batch of brown molasses cookies.

If it had been in his power to do so, he'd have run all the way back to St. Louis to get some of Sissy's banana bread or molasses cookies.

A novelty of Smith's homelike atmosphere is the continuing popularity of Sophia Smith's recipe for molasses cookies.